Regatta de Blanc- The Police
The Who-My Generation. In mono. This is a new album. Geffen. The thing is as thick and heavy as a dinner plate. SQ is great even in mono, which is how it was originally released I'm assuming. |
Steve Miller - Rock Love
The Who - Who Are You
The Nuns - Rumania |
Favorite Neapolitan Songs - Pavarotti
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Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey. Old vinyl. Sounds good but lots of clicks and pops....that probably aren't from dirt. |
Paul Simon “Still Crazy After All These Years”. Miles Davis “Seven Steps To Heaven”. Breaking in a new Marantz PM6006. |
Security .... Peter Gabriel |
Followed by...
Eve ... The Alan Parsons Project
This sounds REALLY sweet on the old Dual 1019 cw Shure M91E with a Jico SAS stylus.
Almost makes me think I should keep this TT rather than be selling it! |
Brandi Carlile "The Firewatcher’s Daughter"
Gretchen Peters "Blackbirds"
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You're Never Alone With a Schizophrenic .... Ian Hunter.
Obviously very Mott The Hoople sounding.
Which is a very good thing of course. |
All Night Long .... Sammy Hagar |
The Band - S/T - The Brown Album
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First up was a Reference Recording 45 of Mickey Hart "Rafos" one of those odd audiophile deals in plain white with only a little sticker on the cover, with some of those culturally odd mostly instrumental arrangement kind of things where sounds keep coming from all over almost enough to make you think its pure audiophile porn except it somehow manages to be involving and musically compelling in addition to being exceptionally well recorded.
And that was just the warm up.
Next up was my Super Hot Stamper of Peter Gabriel So. Damn these Stampers are amazing! Played both sides, even tracks like Sledgehammer and Big Time, heard so many times ought to be tiresome but not when they sound this good. Gabriel anguished over song order feeling that musically the album should end with In Your Eyes. But the album would play better with all that bass modulation further from the spindle. So we get it on the first track. Whatever. I'll take it.
What in the world can follow a Super Hot Stamper? A White Hot Stamper! Only one I have is the eponymous Fleetwood Mac. Side One is awesome, if uneven. Side Two is even and beyond awesome. On Landslide the guitar and vocals are so present and full and real you can't believe it.
Nothing I have to follow that. Good night.
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Lunchtime Listening today.......
Concrete Blonde - "Bloodletting"
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Paul McCartney "Red Rose Speedway" /sides 3&4/had to flatten
All of the PM remasters @ Abbey Road from his Archive Collection are great. Especially at the 50/60% off from Insound.
Then.....
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter "Like, Love & Lust" thanks to @tomic601
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The Searchers "The Collection" MS Music/original Pye master tapes/SQ=EX |
Alone Together ... Dave Mason.
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Emmylou Harris "Wrecking Ball" 3lp/Deluxe Edition |
Talk Talk - It's My Life - phenomenal SQ, Vinyl Q
RIP Mark Hollis |
Buddy Guy "This is Buddy Guy!" (Live)/OP/Vanguard |
Still haven't gotten into my "groove" tonight. Here's one I thought about earlier in the week......
Eels "The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett" OP/dbl clear vinyl
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Horace Silver Quintet - Song For My Father -
Music Matters SRX vinyl, holy ##$^$%! That is a phenomenal record
Genesis - Land Lies Down on Broadway - SQ-EX+ crazy great low end
Beck - Sea Change - not sure if this one or Morning Phase is his best sounding album, they are both incredible
@slaw you just need the right record and it will all fall into place |
@6t5-gto,
That's what I've been waiting for....I think I found it...
Rush "Grace Under Pressure" 2015 remaster.
Which pressing of "Lamb" are you referring to?
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Up next....
Cowboy Junkies "All That Reckoning"
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@slaw the Lamb version is the latest Deluxe edition from Classic Albums that is half speed mastered, 180g, and uses a mix by Nick Davis from 2008. It is really phenomenal, impeccable SQ, great sound stage, quiet vinyl, but this copy has the same issue as my last copy of the same reissue. Closing out side two there is an annoying flaw on the album that comes up as grove noise on about the last minute of the track (Chamber of 32 Doors, of which the low end is EPIC!). Must be a stamper issue, otherwise it is the best sounding copy of the Lamb I have ever heard including OP.
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Bob Ludwig reissue, EX+ |
The CJ is very nice. I never go wrong buying their stuff.
An lp I came across recently...Shirley Horn "Softly". I’m not usually into jazz, but I like all music. This one struck me because it was recorded by Pierre Spray at his Maple Shade studio. I’m not aware of any other recording he made that is on vinyl. To top that off, it’s an ORG in mono, pressed at Pallas. I hope the hype becomes reality?
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Thanks for the info @6t5-gto
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What a day! Stopped to get my hairs cut (all of them!) and dropped into the record store next-door to the barber. They were WAY overstocked by about 4000 records or more. Had a huge sale. All of the records in the dollar bin were $.25 and 2 free if you buy 4. So, 6 for a dollar. I ended up with 50 records for $7. I don't even know where to start with the lot. I've cleaned a few and just put on my first selection.......
Nicolette Larson - "Nicolette"
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"Softly" is one record that's easy to just "melt" into.
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Jesse Sykes again after a flattening. (Much better)
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Judy Collins "Wildflowers" 50th/mono |
Death Cab For Cutie "Kintsugi" |
Jim Lauderdale "Time Flies" |
Neil Young "Harvest Moon" 2017/dbl/lp |
ELP "Brain Salad Surgery" |
The great/late Ronnie Montrose "The Speed of Sound"!!!!!! |
Gotta love Montrose! The first album with Sammy Hagar is one of my all time favorites. |
The Doors "Morrison Hotel" German |
Security ... Peter Gabriel. |
The J Geils Band "S/T" Speakers Corner |
Califone "All My Friends Are Funeral Singers" |
Stevie Ray Vaughan "In Step" |
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Went back to the record store today to finish looking through their sale stash. Ended up with another 30 records for $5. Grand total for the weekend, 80 LPs for $12.00. Not a bad haul. Now I have to go through the cleaning and listening to see how I really fared. |
Sibelius Symphony 2/Barbirolli/ The Halle Orchestra
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Ray LaMontagne "Ouroboros" |
Gil Scott-Heron - "Re-Ron"
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John Palumbo - "Blow Up Detroit"
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